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I finally got my husband to delete all the junk in his inbox
By malpoa
@malpoa (1214)
India
October 1, 2009 1:46am CST
It was a bit difficult to convince him that emails contribute to carbon emmission. Just my lecture didnt help...one day one of my friends suggested that i should forward him the link which scientifically explains the entire thing...I did send the link then and there...yesterday he said that his inbox was clean...I felt so happy... Atleast I am being able to go green in small ways as possible and succeded in making my husband do so too...
Do you have junks of unwanted mail which you never bother to open in your inbox? Do you let it there or delete it from inbox,scam and trash folders as I do? Are you aware of the carbon emission from these mails? Will you do your bit in preventing the emission? Please let me know...Goodday
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3 responses
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
13 Nov 09
This is abwolutely new information to me. I had no idea that emails contribute to carbon emmission and I cannot understand that this happens or how it happens - please explain.
I am very bad at deleting mails. I do not receive many spam or junk mails at all but the others I tend to open and then leave them hanging about until I decide to have a big clean out.
I am the same offline too. Mails pile up and it takes ages before I actually get round to either disposing of them or filing them away in their correct folders 
@malpoa (1214)
• India
17 Nov 09
It does happen as I watched a documentary on a very good rated news channel over here. I did ask my friends who werent convinced of this to clarify via net. If you want, I could send you the link. I have poor memory and forgot the explanation!!!
the practice I do is after reading mails, I delete it right away, except for htose which are important mails. I also make it a pointot delete mails in spam, trash and sent folders. think about the newspaper piling up if we dont care about it, mails are just like that. A clean mail inbox is refreshing too.
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
17 Nov 09
I can see your point now that you compare it to newspapers piling up. If you have the link then please send it as I would like to see it. I agree that a mailbox cleared of old mails is good to see... but rarely happens in my case
@priyankabhowmick (39)
• India
17 Nov 09
i never knew abt these carbon emission from junk mails..but good to know now... i delete all spam mails but thre r lots in my husband's mail box..... well i'll tell him abt it. anyways how does carbon emissions affect the mailbox???
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
1 Oct 09
Hi Malpoa, good for you having some influence on your husbands ways.
Now this is going to absolutely amaze you I know, you should really sit down in fact,but not only do I know how to delete emails but I also know how to delete the deleted ones. I also know how to stop my junkmail from arriving in my inbox in the first place but it does arrive somewhere in the computer. I found out how to do this when the junk mail hit 130 a day and I could no longer tolerate any more. From time to time I instruct the computer to stop additional words which appear in junk form to not reach my inbox. 
